These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Apollonius of Rhodes, Apollos, Apollyon.
a Greek poet, born in Egypt, but long residing at Rhodes, where he founded a school of rhetoric. He afterward became keeper of the famous library of Alexandria, B. c. 149. He wrote a poem called "Argonautica," which is still extant.
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a Jew of Alexandria, who learned the doctrines of Christianity at Ephesus from Aquila and Priscilla, became a preacher of the gospel in Achaia and Corinth, and an assistant of Paul in his missionary work. Some have regarded him as the author of the Epistle to the Jews.
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a-pol'li-on, or a-pol'yun, the angel of the bottomless pit, mentioned in Rev. ix: 11. Bunyan has introduced Apollyon into his Pilgrim's Progress . Christian wages a terrible combat with him. See Bunyan ; Pilgrim'S Progress ; The
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the department of theology which treats of the establishment the evidences and defense of the doctrines of a faith. Christian apologetics, generally called simply apologetics, treats of the evidences of Christianity, and seeks to establish the truth of the Bible and the doctrines educed from it.
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in anatomy, a name of certain grayish-white shining membranes, composed of interlacing fibers, sometimes continuous with the muscular fiber, and differing from tendons merely in having a flat form. They serve several purposes, sometimes attaching the muscles to the bones, sometimes surrounding the muscle and preventing its displacement, etc.
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in architecture, the small curve at the top of a column by which its shaft joins its capital. It is sometimes called the spring of the column . Originally it was the ring which bound the extremities of wooden pillars to keep them from splitting, imitated in stone-work. The same name is given to the corresponding concavity connecting the bottom of a pillar with the fillet at its base.
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in architecture, the small curve at the top of a column by which its shaft joins its capital. It is sometimes called the spring of the column. Originally it was the ring which bound the extremities of wooden pillars to keep them from splitting, imitated in stone-work. The same name is given to the corresponding concavity connecting the bottom of a pillar with the fillet at its base.
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a tetragonal mineral, called also ichthyophthalmite, classed by Dana as the type of an apophylite group of unisilicates. Color, white or grayish; occasionally with greenish, yellowish, rosered or flesh-red tint. It is generally transparent ; nt; is brittle, and has feeble double refraction. It is "hydrated calceopotassic silicate." It occurs chiefly in amygdaloid, though occasionally in granite and gneiss. It is found at Ratho , near Edinburgh, and in Fife, Dumbarton and Inverness-shires. It occurs in Europe , in India, in Siberia, in America, in Australia and elsewhere.
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a tetragonal mineral, called also ichthyophthalmite, classed by Dana as the type of an apophylite group of unisilicates. Color, white or grayish; occasionally with greenish, yellowish, rose-red or flesh-red tint. It is generally transparent; is brittle, and has feeble double refraction. It is "hydrated drated calceopotassic silicate." It occurs chiefly in amygdaloid, though occasionally in granite and gneiss. It is found at Ratho, near Edinburgh, and in Fife, Dumbarton and Inverness-shires. It occurs in Europe, in India, in Siberia, in America, in Australia and elsewhere.
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a serious malady, coming on so suddenly and so violently that anciently anyone affected by it was said to be attonitus (thunderstruck), or sideratus (planetstruck). The disease now described is properly called cerebral apoplexy, the cerebrum or brain being the part chiefly affected.
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a serious malady, coming on so suddenly and so violently that anciently anyone affected by it was said to be attonitus (thunderstruck), or sideratus (planet-struck). The disease now described is properly called cerebral apoplexy, the cerebrum or brain being the part chiefly affected.
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"a primitive creed of the Christian church, not of apostolic origin, but a product of the Western Church during the first four centuries, not now assignable to any individual author. It was originally a baptismal confession, and was intended to be a popular summary of apostolic teaching." THE APOSTLES' CREED. I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost; born of the Virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven; and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy Catholic Church; the Communion of Saints; the Forgiveness of sins; the Resurrection of the body; and the Life everlasting. Amen.
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in church affairs, an uninterrupted succession of bishops, and through them, of priests and deacons, by regular ordination, from the first apostles to the present day. According to this doctrine Christ ordained his apostles; they ordained others; who, in turn, perpetuated the succession. Bishops, priests, and deacons are the three apostolic orders. Ordination is not valid unless it comes in unbroken succession from the hand of Christ through the first apostles. The doctrine of apostolic succession is held by the Roman church, the Greek church , the Armenian church, the Alexandrian church, and the Anglican church (Church of England).
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APOSTOLICI, or APOS- TOLIC BRETHREN, the name given to certain sects who professed to imitate the manners and practice of the apostles. The last and most important of these sects was founded about 1260 by Gerhard Segarelli of Parma. They went barefooted, clothed in white, with long beard, disheveled hair, and bare heads, accompanied by women called spiritual sisters, begging, preaching and singing, throughout Italy, Switzerland, and France; announced the coming of the kingdom of heaven and of purer times; denounced the papacy, and its corrupt and worldly church; and inculcated the complete renunciation of all worldly ties, of property, settled abode, marriage, etc. This society was formally abolished (1286) by Honorius IV. In 1300 Segarelli was burned as a heretic, but another chief apostle appeared-Dolcino, a learned man of Milan. In self-defense they stationed themselves in fortified places whence they might resist attacks. After having devastated a large tract of country belonging to Milan they were subdued, A. D. 1307, by the troops of Bishop Raynerius, in their fortress Zebello, in Vercelli, and almost all destroyed. Dolcino was burned. The survivors afterward appeared in Lombardy and in the south of France as late as 1368.
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